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I got out the ole' Power Mac 9500 last evening and tried to start it up. No luck. Though the hard drive in it is fine and has OS 7.6 on it, it did not work. I g…
I have absolutely no reason to want a Newton. I have a Nokia N800, I have a Palm Zire 72, I have a BlackBerry for a phone, and all kinds of other gadgets and gi…
Hi, Yesterday I picked up my first 512k. They are hard to get in Europe so I had to pay a whopping 20 euro for it ;-) But, on boot no glory. I opened it up and …
Howdy all, I bought a 14" 233MHz Wallstreet (or maybe PDQ, can't tell yet) a few days ago. The machine smells of smoke and most likely belonged to a smoker at o…
Well, after receiving my HD20, I immediately plugged it into my 512K-upgraded 128. It would boot to the HD20 disk, try to handoff to the HD20, and crash. I plug…
For the Ram gurus here, a question. What happens if you mix FPM and EDO Ram in an 8600/9600? Machine gets flakey, won't boot at all, smoke and flames, or?? Also…
For those who wonder when Motorola started producing 68LC040 processors without the errata that caused problems with software FPU emulation, here is the actual …
Last week I scored some beautiful Black hardware: - NeXTstation TurboColor, with SoundBox ADB, and ADB keyboard and mouse, pristine. - NeXT MegaPixel 17'' displ…
I now have an Acer/eMachines E181H widescreen LCD monitor. The resolution is 1366 x 768. On my PowerMac G4, it shows a max resolution of 1280x720. Of course the…
It's a parts machine, (power supply bad, hard drive removed) but was being listed only as a 533mhz, nothing said about the dual processor but the photo of the b…
I picked up a book called Macintosh Revelations yesterday. The best part about it is the CD that it comes with--a huge BMUG archive of shareware, freeware, and …
I bought a used ATI Xclaim TV quite some time ago for next to nothing. It was a small external box for either receiving Cable television or via an attached ante…
I finally recovered from the... crash? When I lost power to the shed for a week, the non-graceful shutdown seemed to kill the server... I have a new motherboard…
From tinkering with my older Macs I got pretty used to doing things the classic Mac way. Naturally, I decided to install OS 9.2.2 on a newly acquired 466 iBook …
So I fired up my old color classic and put a network card in it. The machine detects it and I was able to set the TCP/IP settings to ethernet and drop my IP det…
Does anyone know what a basic SE/30 would have cost in the first half of 1990?
This is a subject that has been picking at me for some time. I have noticed very little "free" software for my newtons, most of it is shareware. What is worse i…
Has anyone noticed how few 512ke's have been on ebay lately? There's been more 1984 Macintosh 128k's than 512ke's and there's been plenty of 512k's.
All right, so I thought that the 2 GB HD in the Power Mac 8100/80 was toast, but it turned out that the System Folder had gotten unblessed for some reason. I bo…
I had my Q700 in the IIvx case open recently and my hand brushed the metal case and I got shocked. i thought it was a static discharge, but when I touched it ag…
Does anyone know what the trick is to help a Pismo recognize a replacement (non-Apple-original) drive for burning? My latest Pismo, a 500mhz. running 10.4.11, s…
So I was playing around with the idea of adding a second drive to my 7500 as the 500mb drive I was using is too small. I decided to just put a bigger drive in a…
I'm wondering how popular the LC III was (or not)? Reason, I don't encounter hardly any of them where I look. Even on ebay they seem scarce. I figured, I want o…
Hey, the first mac I ever had was an apple iic it pains me that I do not know what happened to it as it came with that and about 200 floppys or so with tons of …
anyone use(d) it? I have managed to take a handheld baby step hello world example and failed to get it working on a emulator
i recently bought a 1984 Macintosh model M0001 from ebay. I'm not sure though if this is the original M0001 model. i turned it on with the system disk and click…
I recently posted to the trading post and would like to update the original post to indicate items spoken for. I looked and I looked and could not find some sor…
hey all I've recently come into a problem with the support (stand/base/whatever you want to call it) cracking on my Studio Display. It has unfortunately split r…
Hey, my youth leader wants to use my dualie G4 450(I don't have a use for it anymore) and connect it to a 1080p tv panel and play movies of the trips the youth …
OK, 68k gang, I have hit a roadblock and need help. I am trying to get the 6.3 Orinoco drivers installed on a PB 1400 running OS 8. I have managed to convert th…
The biggest reason I didn't get it before is because it was always expensive to buy it directly from them and I could never find it used. I found a copy for $6,…
A few days ago, I got my hands on a Classic II with an allegedly dead hard drive. Replacing the drive was no problem, plenty of spares. Powered the beast. Yaaaa…
So I had to rip every box out of my house storage area to find one freakin power cable for my digital cable box and I ended up finding a few things I forgot I o…
Hi, I've trawled for a couple of hours online, and can't find the Mac OS drivers (specifically, OS 9.1) for an OrangeLink+ Firewire/USB 2.0 PCI card; I don't ev…
First off, hello. I am a new member here. Secondly, I was driving down the street today and saw what looked like the top of a mac in a pile of trash on the side…
Just a note/ flag that these are currently available at $1.99 each on ebay (with best offers available too) if you want to revive a PowerBook by replacing a dea…
Is it possible somehow to use the shell, power supply etc. of a disused machine like, say, a non-booting 9500, as a box for an external RAID? I have several 18G…
Supermac Thunder II WITH the DSP daughter board. :lol: So which 68kmla'ers were bidding against me?
I have resurrected a LCIII and bought a new IIe card for it but I can't get it to boot. I get an error that says I have a bad IIe card, I am running OS 7.5 and …
After nearly a year of not being used, I got my 12" Apple RGB that I've had for 18 years out today. It has one problem--the focus seems to be quite off. Text an…
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A few months ago I got an iMac G5 w/ box and everything for $20 at a yardsale. It had a Dead PSU. I spent a few hours last night and until about 1:00 this after…
This would be my second PowerBook Duo 230, which I obtained from eBay for a mere $15, sold as-is for parts, as the previous owner could not get it to power on. …
Well, so I guess my PB 1400c is coming with OS 9 loaded instead of OS 7 as originally planned! That is exciting, if not for the fact that performance will be re…
this is a partial list, for the other half of the list see the thread: os9 Compatible Audio Interfaces (without midi i/o) http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.p…
I also have a Quadra 605 that I've had put away for a number of years. Are there known leaky caps on that MB? This is the one that's the same MB as the LC 475.
I have been slightly irritated with the capacitor price hikes over at Mouser.com There are other places to get caps… LIke Ebay and AliExpress.com Buy with cauti…
Hello all! I was wondering something. Were there store demo disks for every macintosh? if not, are there ones for my models? my models >imac g3 >m…
I was reading about this old attempt by apple to reduce cable clutter. Has anyone tried to use the Video-In on the Original AppleVision 14" monitor that shipped…